Screensavers for FC4?

[Jim Cornette]

Bart Kalita wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 22:54 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
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>>.xscreensaver is a hidden file. Did you use nautilus to look for the 
>>file? It would not be displayed if hidden files were not unhid.
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>>Try this:
>>Open a terminal from Applications --> System Tools Terminal. A terminal 
>>should open.
>>In the terminal type the below at the prompt.
>>rm .xscreensaver
>>xscreensaver-demo
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>>When the screen saver comes up, you should be at the default settings. 
>>Your previous settings will not be there.  Set them to your liking and 
>>then close down the application. If there still is not all of the 
>>screensavers displayed, list the output of installed programs.
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>>in the terminal, type the below and report back what the output to the 
>>terminal is.
>>rpm -qa | grep xscreensaver
>>I get the output below:
>>xscreensaver-gl-extras-4.21-4
>>xscreensaver-extras-4.21-4
>>xscreensaver-base-4.21-4
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>>I'm just trying to be complete. I added the additional steps to be safe.
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>>Jim
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>>-- 
>> "I've finally learned what `upward compatible' means.	It means we
>>  get to keep all our old mistakes."
>> -- Dennie van Tassel
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>[bart at nemesis ~]$ rm .xscreensaver
>[bart at nemesis ~]$ xscreensaver-demo
>xscreensaver-demo: 06:50:01: realpath /home/bart/.xscreensaver: No such
>file or directory
>xscreensaver-demo: 06:50:01: realpath /home/bart/.xscreensaver: No such
>file or directory
>[bart at nemesis ~]$
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>No Change
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>All the rpms removed with --nodeps option .xscreensaver file removed and
>files reinstalled via yum, reboot, no change in the screensaver list but
>xscreensaver-demo works and selected screensaver starts without locking
>the screen with the password.
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>now everything works just fine.
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>but there is still no full list of screensavers when looked at form:
>right click desktop, configure desktop, screen saver.
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>anyway, thanx for all your help.
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I just had to try this to be sure. I renamed .xscreensaver to 
.xscreensaver.backup - Then ran xscreensaver-demo to test this out. I 
then checked the home directory after closing down the demo.

 ~]$ ls .xscre*
.xscreensaver  .xscreensaver.backup

Ah! you are using KDE.

I just tried kde (The New Login feature is great for multiple GUIs. w/ 
multiple desktops)

Anyway, Once KDE loaded, I did as you described and then clicked on the 
setup button. A screen came up where you had checkmarks to allow extra 
screensvers and gl-extras.

They were both checked when I opened up setup.

I use GNOME mostly, it comes in handy having several installed for these 
type of tests.

Did you click on the setup button?

Jim

-- 
 "I've finally learned what `upward compatible' means.	It means we
  get to keep all our old mistakes."
 -- Dennie van Tassel